Wearable computing is not just a Made In America phenomenon. China is getting in on the act, too. Today came news that Guoke, a hardware company owned by digital publishing giant Shanda, will start selling smart watches in June, challenging both Apple and Samsung, the latter of which has also just let it be known that it is working on a smartwatch.

Shanda’s watch, called the Bambook Smart Watch and named after its line of smartphones and e-readers, will run on both Android and Firefox, making it potentially the most flexible smartwatch in the world, according to the blog TechNode. Another interesting twist: the watch will have an e-ink screen, suggesting the company expects wearers to use it as a reading device. A picture on donews.com shows the watch also being used for navigation.

Xiaomi’s new street shoes

Meanwhile, China’s homegrown Apple competitor, Xiaomi – which we profiled last year – has just released a line of footwear to complement its high-end affordable smartphones and a recently-approved set-top box for TVs. For now, the kicks are regular canvas street shoes, but the startup, which is already valued at $4 billion, plans to advance the idea of the Nike+ shoe by letting users link the shoes to a Xiaomi phone to measure steps taken, heart-rate, and other quantified-selfie activity. The current “dumb” version of the shoes cost about $16.

While we’re talking about high-tech in China, we have a good excuse to mention the HeX Air Robot, a 3D-printed, smartphone-controlled drone from Chinese company Angel Eyes. We first spotted this a couple of months ago thanks to a post on TechInAsia. At that time, the bootstrapped company was planning to raise money for the project on Kickstarter. That campaign hasn’t yet materialized, but it can’t be too long until these little gizmos are circling our neighborhoods. Enjoy the video.

Facebook has introduced Scrapbook, a new feature that allows parents to share and collect images of their children in one place without requiring them to worry about tagging their kids’ face with each other’s names just to make sure they don’t miss what the other person has posted. [Source: Facebook]

“For all the clumsy rhetorical lip service [former Yahoo News head] Guy Vidra pays to The New Republic’s hallowed intellectual traditions, this is what his vision of a nimble digital news product finally translates into: a vaguely journalistic veneer strategically designed to conceal a rancid interior of ‘elevated’ advertising.”

Indian e-commerce company Flipkart is said to be raising $600 million in its latest bid to compete with Amazon. The company is also said to have garnered a higher valuation with this funding round — quite the feat, considering it was previously valued at around $11.5 billion. [Source: The Economic Times]

Here comes another unicorn: Sprinklr, a New York-based marketing company, has raised $46 million at a $1.17 billion valuation. The funds will be used to help the 700-person company expand its marketing platform. [Source: Fortune]

Curator, the tool Twitter created so the media could find and share tweets with its audience, is now available to the public. Because if there’s anything people wanted to see more of, it’s tweets randomly inserted into blog posts, television spots, and other forms of media. [Source: TechCrunch]

A court in France has decided not to ban Uber’s low-cost services until the country’s highest appeals court, or its supreme court, weigh in on the constitutionality of a new transport law. [Source: The Wall Street Journal]

Tinder is refocusing on its spam-fighting efforts in the wake of reports that movie studios are using the service to promote their movies, scammers are attempting to steal information via the app, and pranksters have created tools that trick heterosexual men into flirting with each other. [Source: The Verge]

Uber offers drivers whose accounts have been deactivated a choice: attend a class that requires them to pass an exam, or take a class that doesn’t. The latter has been informed by Uber employees, and the company has sent thousands of drivers to it, according to a report from BuzzFeed. Why is that a problem? Because Uber isn’t supposed to provide its drivers with formal training; doing so makes them bona fide employees, not independent contractors. [Source: BuzzFeed]

Flipboard users will now be able to collect articles and share them via private magazines visible only to members of certain groups. The feature is aimed at students working in the same class, companies sharing press coverage, and other groups that might want an easy way to share Web pages with each other without having to use public tools like Facebook or Twitter. [Source: Flipboard]